New Lots Avenue (L) - The SubwayNut

New Lots Avenue is a recently renovated Canarsie Line Station, the station is located on the portion of the ROW that is on a concrete walled embankment and the station has two narrow side platforms with canopied and windscreen sections towards the middle of the platforms. Parallel to the station is where Bay Ridge freight Branch (which has followed the L train since just south of the East New York Station), curves west to continue west towards Bay Ridge, at the northern end of the station, the freight tracks are parallel to the subway tracks, and by the southern end of the station they are fully separated.

There are two staircases down from the Canarsie-bound platform, and a single one down from the Manhattan-bound platform to a station house and fare control area at street level that is directly underneath the tracks. Doors lead out from the station house to New Lots Avenue between that passes underneath the station, basically at the SW corner of Van Sinderen Avenue that the subway viaduct runs alongside.
Photo 1-8: June 1, 2009;

Arts For Transit at New Lots Avenue

16 Windows, 2007
Fused Glass in Platform Windscreens
By Eugenie Tung

Looking down the narrow Manhattan-bound side platform at New Lots Avenue as a R143 L train stops in the station.

A Manhattan-bound R143 L train leaves New Lots Avenue.

Looking across to the slighlty wider portion of the platforms at New Lots Avenue where the staircases come up from the station house and fare control beneath the tracks.

An exterior shot of the entrance to the station house and New Lots Avenue beneath the elevated structure.

Looking across to a smaller than normal bench and one of the '16 windows' along the Canarsie-bound platform at New Lots Avenue.

The chain linked fence along a staircase at Sutter Avenue provides the photographer a place to get an extremely rare trackside view of the trains.

A view down the two track line at New Lots Avenue.

Another view down the two track New Lots Avenue station that is located on an embankment.